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Post by anni on Mar 25, 2014 18:00:04 GMT -8
Our next evening of sharing a movie, thoughts and treats will be
Friday, April 11, 2014 7:30 PM
Crescenta Valley United Methodist Church, 2700 Montrose Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
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Post by Brian on Mar 29, 2014 23:30:40 GMT -8
Although I never saw the trailer, I caught Jeff Bridges on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" last year talking about "A Place at the Table" as well as his Share Our Strength/No Kid Hungry campaign to eradicate child hunger in America by 2015, which he maintains is an entirely realistic goal. Bridges just appears in the documentary that we're watching on April 11, but he's been working to feed children worldwide since he founded the End Hunger Network in 1983. So I already wanted to see the movie, and after learning that T Bone Burnett is the music supervisor, I especially want to hear it.
Crescenta Valley United Methodist Church is probably the finest local venue to watch a DVD on a Friday evening, with big dual screens and good sound. The church members and RAPP group stalwarts Jeanne, Edmond and Roberta, who put everything together on these movie nights, also make the community room downstairs a great place to hang around afterwards. If you're reading this, please feel free to come and feel welcome as I do.
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Post by Jeanne on Apr 17, 2014 13:12:11 GMT -8
Thanks to all of you who helped with the screening of "A Place At The Table." Connie Wright wrote a lovely thank you letter and reported that our free will offering came to $172. Generosity seems to go hand in hand with peace.
I found the movie very motivating. As good a project as Empty Bowls has been, I am not satisfied with the fact that it is only charity when justice is required. I'm going to be looking for ways to add elements to it that will influence our sick economic systems towards more justice. A girl can dream... I invite suggestions and participation!
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Post by Jeanne on Apr 18, 2014 6:29:35 GMT -8
And, last night on my way home I heard a replay of an interview on KPCC with Brandon Bryant, the ex Air Force soldier with the chilling accounts of his years of sending drones off. Last year he was doing lots of interviews. There was one with Huffington Post that led me to this NBC news one. investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/06/18787450-former-drone-operator-says-hes-haunted-by-his-part-in-more-than-1600-deaths(Not sure if that will turn up as a real link or if you'll have to copy and paste) Anyway, he was told that his efforts resulted in over 1600 deaths. I think his bosses thought that was something to be proud of, but the reality has been devastating to him. He is out of the Air Force and is being treated for PTSD. |
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Post by Brian on Apr 21, 2014 23:01:09 GMT -8
Thank you, Jeanne, for posting that link to Richard Engel's article and interview with former drone operator Brandon Bryant, who made the biggest impression in the documentary that RAPP screened last month. The surviving family members in Pakistan were clearly anguished, but Bryant's pain was heartbreaking for me. They may heal, he might not. Perhaps he'll find some measure of redemption in telling us the truth about what was done in our names as Americans.
We love Richard Engel in this house. At first, I thought that Anni might have a crush on him, but I realized that it was a motherly instinct, always worried watching him in Egypt, Libya, Syria -- where he was briefly kidnapped -- Afghanistan and Ukraine, any place there's extreme trouble. He's the greatest broadcast foreign correspondent of my lifetime, and that's saying a lot, since Edward R. Murrow was alive until I was 7.
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